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unusual facts about Private law



Courts in Austria

The system of courts in Austria interpreting and applying Austrian law is marked by a division between ordinary courts, dealing with criminal and civil cases, and public law tribunals for constitutional law, administrative law and asylum law.

Real property

English law has retained the common law distinction between real property and personal property, whereas the civil law distinguishes between "movable" and "immovable" property.


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Advocates for Informed Choice

On May 14, 2013, Advocates for Informed Choice, The Southern Poverty Law Center, and pro bono counsel for the private law firms of Janet, Jenner & Suggs and Steptoe & Johnson LLP filed a lawsuit against South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS), Greenville Health System, Medical University of South Carolina and individual employees for performing an irreversible and medically unnecessary surgery on an infant who was in the state’s care at the time of the surgery.

Andrew Burrows

His work centres on private law, and is the main editor of the compendium English Private Law, as well as textbooks on English contract law and restitution.

Filippo Valguarnera

Filippo Valguarnera leads together with Ugo Mattei (University of California - Hastings) and Saki Bailey (International University College of Turin) a research project on access to commons in the frame of the Common Core of European Private Law.

Guilé Foundation

This non-profit organization of Swiss private law has been founded in 1997 by the Charles Burrus family headquartered in Boncourt, Switzerland.

Gunther Teubner

From 1993 to 1998 he was the Otto Kahn Freund Professor of Comparative Law and Legal Theory at the London School of Economics, and since 1998 he has been Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology at the University of Frankfurt.

J. E. Casely Hayford

That year, he returned with his second wife Adelaide to Ghana to private law practice in Cape Coast, Axim, Sekondi and Accra.

Johannes Platschek

In 1993, he began his legal studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (first state legal examination, 1998; second state legal examination, 2000; doctorate in 2003, summa cum laude); starting in 2004, he worked as a postdoctoral assistant at the University of Munich's Leopold Wenger Institute for Legal History, where he finished his habilitation in 2009 (in Roman Law, Civil Law, Ancient Legal History, and the history of private law in modern times).

Laurence Whalen

Private law practice in Washington, D.C., with Hamel and Park (now Hopkins, Sutter, Hamel and Park), 1977-84; also in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with Crowe & Dunlevy, 1984-87.

Law of Canada

Quebec, however, still retains a civil system for issues of private law (as this domain falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces).

Legal history

The current legal infrastructure in the People's Republic of China was heavily influenced by soviet Socialist law, which essentially inflates administrative law at the expense of private law rights.

Legal system of Macau

Private law in Macau is basically codified in two separate codes: the 1999 Civil Code and the 1999 Commercial code.

M. Peter McPherson

After his government service in the Ford administration, he worked in private law practice as managing partner of the Washington office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, an Ohio law firm.

Ruggero J. Aldisert

He entered private law practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1947 and achieved national prominence from 1951 to 1956 as co-defense counsel to Aldo Icardi in The Holohan Murder Case.

Sandra Schultz Newman

Since retiring at the end of 2006, she has maintained a private law practice in Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Statute of Uses

Decades later, both Francis Bacon and Edward Coke gave readings on it, while William Holdsworth called it "perhaps the most important addition that the legislature has ever made to our private law", with Eric Ives writing that "the importance of the Statute of Uses is beyond doubt. The effect its provisions had on English land law development was revolutionary, and from it have grown the crucial doctrines of the trust".

Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta

Composition courses at that time consisted of Arabic language, Introduction to Religious Studies, Fiqh, Usul Fiqh, Tafsir, Hadith, Kalam Science, Philosophy, Mantiq, Akhlaq, Mysticism, Comparative Religion, Da'wah, Islamic era, History of Islamic Culture, Education Science and Culture, Life Science, Introduction to Law, Principles of Public and Private Law, Ethnology, Sociology, and Economics.

Thomas E. Fairchild

Following his defeat in the 1952 Senate race, he resumed private law practice in Milwaukee.

Ugo Mattei

He is currently leading a project on commons with Saki Bailey (International University College of Turin) and Filippo Valguarnera (Örebro University) in the context of the Common Core of European Private Law.

William Eich

After practicing with a private law firm in Madison, Wisconsin, Eich served as an Assistant and Deputy Attorney General of Wisconsin with Attorneys General Bronson La Follette and Robert W. Warren.